Underplayed Gems
The whole movie catalogue

Films and series, searchable by what they are

← Back to the shop

A Fair Impostor (1916)

A Fair Impostor poster
Directed by
Alexander Butler
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
United Kingdom
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman assumes a false identity for reasons not fully explained. Her deception leads to tense interactions with the people around her.

periodmysteriousdramaticsomberrestrainedatmosphericsilent-era

What happens

A Fair Impostor is a 1916 British silent drama film directed by Alexander Butler and starring Madge Titheradge, Gerald McCarthy and Charles Rock. It was made at Isleworth Studios. It was based on a 1909 novel of the same title by Charles Garvice. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

This page is from Underplayed Gems. Not quite it? Tell the Catbot what you feel like watching and it picks from the whole catalogue, or browse by genre, country and year.

Lists: Korean thrillers worth the evening · Anime films beyond Studio Ghibli · Slow films for a rainy night · Horror that unsettles instead of startling · Series you can finish in a weekend · Nordic crime worth the subtitles · Good films that end in under 90 minutes · Documentaries that play like thrillers

Loading movies…

What should I watch?